Europe Would Rather Destroy Itself Than Negotiate With Russia | Richard Sakwa And Radhika Desai
Richard Sakwa and Radhika Desai examine why Europe's leaders continue to escalate a war that most Europeans no longer support. They show that the firing of Ukraine's defense minister for being "too honest," alongside protests in Kyiv and Lviv, exposes a Zelensky government that has abandoned even the pretense of democratic accountability, while Gallup polling finds two-thirds of Ukrainians now want negotiations to end the war. NATO's Ankara summit revealed a alliance divided 31 to 1, yet European elites keep deepening their commitment to a war they cannot win against a nuclear-armed power, treating negotiation itself as capitulation rather than a path to peace. This refusal comes as the war escalates both horizontally, with drone and missile strikes now reaching deep into Russia, and vertically, with hardliners in Moscow openly discussing nuclear deterrence. Sakwa argues that Russia is entering a genuinely post-Western but not post-European phase, rejecting the Atlantic system while still identifying with European civilization, and that Europe's elites are choosing economic and civilizational self-harm over acknowledging any of Russia's legitimate security concerns.
Request for Help
I am seeking urgent assistance from anyone willing and able to examine my case independently.
I am the victim of a state-financed entrapment programme orchestrated by the Norwegian security apparatus. The process began in early 2009 with a series of coordinated provocations and psychological torture intended to break me down psychologically. Over time, I came to understand that the purpose of these provocations was to produce manipulated recordings and fabricate security-related threat narratives that could later be used against me.
Since then, I have been subjected to prolonged containment through controlled environments designed to isolate me, systematically torture me, and ultimately gain psychological control over me. This campaign has been sustained over many years by the Norwegian security apparatus. Its objectives have been to engineer false narratives, systematically spread them through formal and informal networks, isolate me, continue systematic torture within controlled environments, and ultimately use me as a “Manchurian candidate” in a false-flag security operation.
Norwegian security agencies operate extrajudicial campaigns through networks presented publicly as anti-radicalisation cooperation. In reality, these networks function as de facto extrajudicial courts involving religious institutions, community leaders, and criminal elements. They are used to facilitate torture, entrapment, and smear campaigns against victims while concealing the role of those directing the operations.
Norwegian security agencies operate with the acquiescence of higher authorities, enabling them to use state institutions to fabricate evidence and narratives, manipulate official and medical records, conceal torture, silence victims, and obstruct independent legal remedies. Political figures, public officials, professional associations, healthcare providers, NGOs, private individuals, and members of the general public are influenced through false narratives, incentives, coercion, or other means to participate in social and political engineering while maintaining the appearance that their actions are independent and spontaneous.
Norway now functions as an authoritarian system operating behind the façade of democratic institutions. Security cooperation between Western states, together with their influence over international human rights organisations, has created an environment in which meaningful scrutiny is prevented. Rather than conducting independent investigations, many organisations knowingly or unknowingly reproduce the same fabricated narratives generated by the security apparatus.
Throughout this process, I have been systematically prevented from learning the allegations being constructed against me and prevented from responding to them through torture and containment. Every attempt to report torture, challenge fabricated narratives, or obtain an independent investigation has resulted in further retaliation, additional fabrication of evidence, and deeper containment.
Today, I remain unable to break free from this system. The containment extends far beyond state institutions and incorporates individuals within my wider social environment. My communications have been continuously monitored, making it extremely difficult to communicate safely or obtain genuinely independent assistance.
I am not asking anyone to accept my account without scrutiny. I am asking for an independent examination of the evidence, conducted from first principles and free from reliance on institutional narratives that form part of the system I am asking to have investigated.
If you are able to assist, or know an individual or organisation with the independence, integrity, and expertise necessary to examine this case objectively, I would be deeply grateful for your help.
Independent scrutiny is the only path towards establishing the truth and restoring accountability.